University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum

The scientific life of Ada Lovelace - a talk for Ada Lovelace Day 2019 by Professor Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE DSc Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852) is best known for a remarkable article about Babbage’s unbuilt computer, the Analytical Engine, which not only presented the first documented computer program, but also, going well beyond Babbage’s ideas of computers as manipulating numbers, outlined their […]

(Room 4.31/4.32) Join us for an evening of talks and networking to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. We've got two fantastic speakers Jane Hillston who is the Head of School in Informatics, and Udita Banerjee from RBS.